Stair Master from Hell!

Sarah, Abby and I went to a non touristy part of the Great Wall over the weekend. It was outside of Beijing more than a little and had no where near the tourist trappings of the main section at Badaling, but we all really liked it. It was a lot more narrow and a lot steeper than any section I have been on before and was for all practical purposes, a staircase going up a mountain. The steps were killer, some were only a few inches high, some more than two feet high. We figured it was probably a mile going up the mountain and coming back down, we felt every step. A few days later, I can still feel them a little in my legs. The whole time we were there, the views were amazing, and we took many pictures, far too many to post one at a time as I usually do, but I uploaded them all to Photobucket through a proxy, so you should be able to just click --or copy and paste--the link below and see some of the pictures, (even movies!)

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